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Offline Llechwedd

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« Reply #2055 on: August 06, 2012, 12:38:09 pm »
Wat's a Jesse window?

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« Reply #2056 on: August 06, 2012, 01:05:46 pm »
Jesse Window, Llanrhaeadr

A perfect Jesse window, which was first set in the wall in 1533. At the bottom reclines Jesse, with his son King David playing the harp directly above him. All the kings wear ermine. There are also some prophets included. During the Civil War, 1642, the window was taken out and hidden because the Parliamentarians often smashed coloured glass windows. It was restored in 1661.
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« Reply #2057 on: August 07, 2012, 12:53:32 pm »
Oh thanks for that I'd neverheard of it before.

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« Reply #2058 on: August 07, 2012, 01:45:39 pm »
Neither had I until I Googled it!    D)
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« Reply #2059 on: August 08, 2012, 04:10:41 pm »
Where would you find this ?       $walesflag$

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« Reply #2060 on: August 08, 2012, 04:47:13 pm »
Haven't a clue!   And probably won't even be trying to find out!     _))*
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« Reply #2061 on: August 08, 2012, 04:53:36 pm »
Nor me, Hugo, you make them far too hard for me to get right.

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« Reply #2062 on: August 08, 2012, 05:58:13 pm »
That looks to me like the mitred bishop in the Church of St. Saeran, Llanynys - am I right?
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« Reply #2063 on: August 08, 2012, 06:56:53 pm »
You are spot on Ludo and without any clues too.  Well done      &well&

It was closed when we called after our walk last week so I never got to see the painting of St Christopher on the wall.

Directly opposite the door is St. Saeran’s greatest glory, a huge 15th century wall painting of St. Christopher. Rediscovered under plaster in 1967, this rare survival is much the finest medieval wall painting in North Wales. The saint – according to legend a giant who served as a ferryman – is shown carrying the infant Christ across a river, with a flowering staff in his hand and a shoal of fish round his feet. The patron saint of travellers, Christopher (‘Christ-bearer’) was often painted opposite church doorways, where wayfarers could easily glimpse his image and thus (it was believed) be preserved from ‘fainting or falling’ all that day. The belief lives on in the St. Christopher’s of modern key-rings and car dashboards.


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« Reply #2064 on: August 08, 2012, 07:26:15 pm »
An easier one then for local knowledge.  What is the name of this lake?

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« Reply #2065 on: August 08, 2012, 08:16:54 pm »
Llyn Anafon, guessed from looking at the map, looks like Anglesey in the background.
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« Reply #2066 on: August 08, 2012, 09:02:54 pm »
Didn't last long did it?   I think you're right ME.    $good$
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« Reply #2067 on: August 08, 2012, 09:21:24 pm »
It didn't last long did it?  Well done ME it is Llyn Anafon      $good$
  That time we started from Aber and took the path through the valley to get there.

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« Reply #2068 on: August 08, 2012, 09:26:16 pm »
Amazing really when you think I've never been there or heard of it!  _))*
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« Reply #2069 on: August 08, 2012, 09:51:47 pm »
See how lucky you are with this one ME.    The name of the lake and the mountain I was on when I took the photo?          $walesflag$